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Met Office confirms summer 2026 was UK's hottest on record

Provisional data suggests the past summer has seen the warmest temperature since records began in 1884 in the UK, with the record heat 130 times more likely to have occurred due to human-induced climate change

Met Office confirms summer 2026 was UK's hottest on record

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Provisional data suggests the past summer has seen the warmest temperature since records began in 1884 in the UK, with the record heat 130 times more likely to have occurred due to human-induced climate change

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Provisional data suggests the past summer has seen the warmest temperature since records began in 1884 in the UK, with the record heat 130 times more likely to have occurred due to human-induced climate change

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